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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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A glimpse of optimism on climate change (thehill.com)
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[–] neanderthal 9 points 1 year ago (13 children)

This means we can win this war. This doesn't mean get complacent. At minimum, keep pressure on the enemy so they don't have time to regroup, rebuild, and plan a counter attack.

We are making progress on the energy production line. Let's cut off the fossil fuel economic base. Let's go after car dependent design. Let's go on the attack at local elections and zoning and planning meetings. Gaining ground on the car dependency front cuts off vital resources the enemy needs to supply their troops.

It's a major election year in the US. If my fellow yanks blitzkrieg the polls, we can deal a crippling, maybe even fatal, blow. From our allies, keep active on the interwebs. Encourage yanks to get out to vote. Call out BS!

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